Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . the room of the chief clerkof the contract office, where they are examined by clerks detailedfor the purpose, to see if they are proper in form. The amount isthen indorsed on the back of each bid, and then the bids are listedor classified according to the routes, after which they are recordedin route-books specially prepared. After all this tedious and laborious work is done, the
Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . the room of the chief clerkof the contract office, where they are examined by clerks detailedfor the purpose, to see if they are proper in form. The amount isthen indorsed on the back of each bid, and then the bids are listedor classified according to the routes, after which they are recordedin route-books specially prepared. After all this tedious and laborious work is done, the chief clerkgoes over the route-books and designates the lowest bidder for eachroute. An acceptance is then prepared by the Postmaster-Generaland sent to each lowest bidder, who executes a contract according tothe terms of the bid. The contracts are made in duplicate, and whenreceived, one is retained by the Postmaster-General, and the other issent to the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, who has charge of the dis-bursements of the Post-Office Department. The railroad mail routes number nearly 1,400, and the yearly ex-penditure for the transportation of mails over them is $13,000,000. THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE. 209. THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE. There are more than one hundred steamboat routes, which cost $625,-000. The mail messenger service on the railroads is performed at acost of $800,000, and the railroad postal clerks are paid $3,700, present the railroad mail service is 110,208 miles in length. The third assistant postmaster-general has charge of the follow-ing divisions: The division of finance, the division of postage-stamps and stamped envelopes, the division of registered letters,and the division of dead letters. It is the duty of this official topay the mail contractors, to collect the postal revenues, to issue post-age-stamps, stamped envelopes, and postal cards to the post-offices,and to attend to the business connected with registered letters anddead letters. The Dead-
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